In The Conservative Constitution, Russell Kirk states the following:
Burke's speeches and pamphlets were read by the men of 1776 and the men of 1787 - and studied with yet closer attention from 1790 to 1815, and later. In divers ways - some obvious, some subtle - Burke's rhetoric, Burke's politics, and Burke's constitutional principles were woven, generation after generation, into American modes of thought and American understanding of constitutional law. (p.x)I searched Founders Online for "Edmund Burke" and only found two substantive mentions of Burke. One was in a footnote to this letter
From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Priestley, 18 January 1800and the other is this mention:
To Joseph Priestley
Philadelphia Jan. 18. 1800
FOOTNOTE: In 1791 TJ praised Priestley’s rebuttal of Edmund Burke (DNB; Malone, Jefferson 3:448–51; Vol. 7:288; Vol. 20:410, 712n; Vol. 28:24, 67, 102; Vol. 29:284).
From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 1 May 1791
I send you herewith a Copy of Priestley’s answer to Burke which has been reprinted here. You will see by a note page 56 how your idea of limiting the right to bind posterity is germinating under the extravagant doctrines of Burke on that subject.
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